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To: Pinkbell
Prohibition was repealed because it's unconstitutional.

People seeking relief from suffering are NOT CRIMINALS.

Is Willie Nelson a hardened criminal? Brain dead lib, yes. Criminal no.

Back in 1776 you would have locked up the entire Continental Congress for herb!!!!

You got something against agriculture? Happiness? Freedom? Flower phobia? Founding Fathers? What gives YOU or ANYBODY the RIGHT to determine what someone ingests? Pluck the beam out of your own eye brother.

73 posted on 05/13/2012 3:09:40 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: rawcatslyentist
You sure got that backwards. Prohibition was imposed with a Constitutional amendment. It didn't work well. We replaced that amendment with another and then enacted the Volsted Act to eliminate national prohibition.

Prohibition is a state matter!

74 posted on 05/13/2012 3:16:17 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: rawcatslyentist

Willie Nelson??

I have seen him in movies and TV shows where pot is made fun of as if its good old fun. Never saw the film where it was about pain control. Its always about telling the kids watching about how much fun it is to be high.

Please shove those beams deeper in your eyes


100 posted on 05/13/2012 3:49:39 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Pursue Happiness)
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To: rawcatslyentist
Prohibition was repealed because it's unconstitutional.

Factually incorrect; prohibition was indeed Constitutional as it had an amendment authorizing it.
It failed because the it was literally unenforceable and it was unenforceable because a) the scope of control needed, and b) that the definitions were left undefined (i.e. congress could decide what the ABV was for an "intoxicating liquor")

Organized crime became powerful in the prohibition era precisely because of the unenforceable nature of prohibition.

People seeking relief from suffering are NOT CRIMINALS.

Agreed.

is Willie Nelson a hardened criminal? Brain dead lib, yes. Criminal no.
Back in 1776 you would have locked up the entire Continental Congress for herb!!!!
You got something against agriculture? Happiness? Freedom? Flower phobia? Founding Fathers? What gives YOU or ANYBODY the RIGHT to determine what someone ingests? Pluck the beam out of your own eye brother.

Indeed, with prohibition repealed the Constitutional support for the War on Drugs is nonexistent.

186 posted on 05/13/2012 10:28:09 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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